Hacker News: zimbatm

New comment by zimbatm in "Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go"

zimbatm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:38:17 +0000

This is how keychains should be designed. Never return the secret, but mint a new token, or sign a request.

We need this also for normal usage like development environments. Or when invoking a command on a remote server.

Are you going to add support for services that don't support OIDC or this going to be a known limitation?

New comment by zimbatm in "Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills"

zimbatm — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:49:20 +0000

Isn't the point of OpenClaw that the agent can modify itself?

New comment by zimbatm in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

zimbatm — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:28:49 +0000

Thanks! Playing with packaging automation is actually quite fun.

New comment by zimbatm in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

zimbatm — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:32:23 +0000

Just added it to our inventory. For those of you using Nix:

    nix run github:numtide/llm-agents.nix#mistral-vibe

The repo is updated daily.

New comment by zimbatm in "Replace PostgreSQL with Git for your next project"

zimbatm — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:54:11 +0000

Gerrit is doing this with NoteDB. Backups are just one git clone away.

See https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/note-db...

New comment by zimbatm in "AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents"

zimbatm — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:03:37 +0000

This should have been CONTRIBUTING.md all along.

The content of the AGENTS.md is the same as what humans are looking for when contributing to a project.

New comment by zimbatm in "Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions"

zimbatm — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:39:38 +0000

I haven't used it extensively, but it works. I don't think it necessarily needs any updates since the underlying tech is stable.

New comment by zimbatm in "Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions"

zimbatm — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:28:46 +0000

https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

New comment by zimbatm in "Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions"

zimbatm — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:27:00 +0000

Quality animated SVGs is even better:

https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

New comment by zimbatm in "bootc-image-builder: Build your entire OS from a Containerfile"

zimbatm — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:31:23 +0000

Yes, you can target VMDK, AMIs, Azure, ...

`nixos-rebuild build-image --image-variant vmware`

See https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-image-nixos-rebui...

New comment by zimbatm in "Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client"

zimbatm — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:12:39 +0000

That I wasn't very good at Rust :-D

My assumption was that a tool like this will make it easier to keep the README.md in sync while the project evolves. Think of a `--help` section. That assumption holds true to me.

You can see it in action for example here: https://github.com/numtide/treefmt-nix?tab=readme-ov-file#su...

The best part is that it makes it easy to keep the README.md in sync when the project evolves. Just add it to the CI

New comment by zimbatm in "Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client"

zimbatm — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:15:11 +0000

One thing I miss the most when writing Markdown is this formula experience you get in Excel. Jot something down, get the result. Then link it to another block.

There are tools like Jupyter notebooks that have all the functionalities, but their file format isn't very readable or diffable using standard terminal tools.

A while back I wrote https://github.com/zimbatm/mdsh to explore the space. Voiden.md looks like a fancier version of that.

New comment by zimbatm in "Gemini 2.5"

zimbatm — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:56:22 +0000

Why would the book be worth buying tough. If AI can generate a fresh new one just for you?

New comment by zimbatm in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

zimbatm — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 07:52:56 +0000

Since Chrome's engine is used by Edge, Opera, Brave, etc.. Probably the best move is to become a non-profit and have all those organizations chip in.

The main reason even Microsoft gave up and rebased their browser on top of Chrome is because of the breakneck speed at which Google introduces new standards and features to the ecosystem. Having them be forced to slow down might be a good thing for browser diversity and the future of the Internet.

New comment by zimbatm in "Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update"

zimbatm — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:57:03 +0000

This needs more coverage. Perfectly good phones are getting thrown out because of a software update.

New comment by zimbatm in "Discussion: Reduce error handling boilerplate in Golang using '?'"

zimbatm — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:51:09 +0000

This change would mark a turn in the language's evolution, as it would be the first implicit variable to be added to the language.

I'm not going to invoke the slippery slope argument, but what distinguishes Go from the pack is how explicit it is. It can make it more tedious to write, but also much easier to follow as a reader.

New comment by zimbatm in "AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers"

zimbatm — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:01:10 +0000

This is true for any type of assistance. We have had the same arguments about calculators a long time ago.

New comment by zimbatm in "Make your QEMU faster (2022)"

zimbatm — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:49:14 +0000

NixOS has switched to virtiofs 4 days ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/362081

Not all use-cases are faster with virtiofs.

New comment by zimbatm in "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers"

zimbatm — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:19:53 +0000

Wise also recently switched their US bank provider from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank. Maybe they had similar issues?

New comment by zimbatm in "Git-crypt – transparent file encryption in Git"

zimbatm — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:23:42 +0000

Another major flaw:

Transparent decryption sounds nice. Until you commit decrypted secrets by mistake.

Because the encryption/decryption is transparent, you won't notice if the .gitattributes pattern-matching is wrong until it's too late.

I did this myself and saw it happen in the wild as well.